Prep softball regional roundup

October 04, 2008 01:53 am

— Softball
CLASS 4A REGIONALS at Fort Gibson — Advancing to the Class 4A state tournament for the third straight year, the Fort Gibson Lady Tigers will wield the hot bat.
Led by Hayley Jaynes’ inside-the-park two-run home run, the Lady Tigers shut down the Poteau Lady Pirates 8-0 in the 4A regional final at the Fort Gibson diamond on Friday.
Winning pitcher Taylor Mills (7-2) struck out nine batters in pitching the complete-game six-inning no-hitter. Only three Poteau batters reached base.
But it was Fort Gibson’s hitting that the Lady Tigers (28-5) used to punch this ticket to next week’s state tournament in Oklahoma City.
“It was a good team effort,” coach Jerry Walker said. “We’re swinging the bat well.”
The Lady Tigers erupted for six third-inning runs. In the inning, Fort Gibson sent 10 batters to the plate as Brennan Miller and Mikki Stone each hit a two-run double.
Jaynes hit her home run in the third.
Poteau (24-18) eliminated Muldrow 4-1 earlier in the day Friday to advance to the finals against the Lady Tigers.

CLASS 4A REGIONALS at Berryhill — Playing at Berryhill, three errors doomed the Lady Hornets (19-7) as they were eliminated from the Class 4A regionals by Blanchard, 7-5.
The Lady Hornets tied the game at 1-1 in the second inning when Julie Tarkington hit a sacrifice fly scored losing pitcher Julana Shrum (9-4) after Shrum had tripled.
The three errors paved the way for Blanchard to score five runs and lead 6-1 in the bottom of the second.
Hilldale battled back to cut the deficit to 6-5 in the fourth. Shrum singled in two runs and Paige Boling’s single scored Emile Garcia for the big hits.
The Lady Hornets couldn’t get any closer.
“We went down fighting,” Hilldale coach Matt Ross said.

CLASS 3A REGIONALS at Sequoyah — After sweeping through Thursday’s games against Panama and Wilburton, Sequoyah found itself playing against Panama again on Friday for the right to go to the State Tournament.
The Lady Indians had defeated Panama 3-0 in their opener a day before, and like she did on Thursday, Sequoyah starting pitcher Courtney Glass tossed a complete game, earning the 6-4 win.
Glass (33-5) struck out four as the Lady Indians clinched a berth in the fastpitch state tournament for the first time in school history.
Nikki Lewis had three hits, and Glass knocked in two crucial runs in the fourth inning. Her only hit of the day, it scored two runs to give Sequoyah a 6-0 lead. Panama tacked on four runs from there and her single ended up being the difference.

CLASS 2A REGIONALS at Porum — The Lady Eagles (16-15) only managed four hits, including a double by Brooke Stidham, while being knocked out from the Class 2A playoffs in losing 13-0 to Headlton in the regionals at the Porum diamond Friday.
Kaitlyn Teague (10-8) was the losing pitcher in the finale. Earlier, Warner eliminated Sallisaw Central 4-2 as Jori McPeak had two hits and Macy Carman (6-7) was the winning pitcher. Warner eliminated Porum 5-4 on Thursday.

CLASS 2A REGIONALS at Oktaha — Oktaha lost twice to Stroud on Friday, 7-2 and 8-0, and was eliminated just short of the State Tournament.
The Lady Tigers finished the season with a 13-19 record.

CLASS A REGIONALS at Dewar — Amber Webb’s diving snag and throw home just missed the force out on the eventual winning run and Porter’s Lady Pirates were just that close to a state fastpitch tournament berth here Friday.
The play enabled Dewar to beat Porter 3-2 in nine innings in the regional final. Porter earned the title matchup by knocking off Barnsdall 8-3.
“We were right there,” Porter coach Brian Busby said. “We had every opportunity but the truth is the girls never quit. We went through a lot of things this year and it’s a compliment to the girls to get this far. We took it as far as we could without getting there.”
Down 3-1 against Barnsdall, Jessika Stallings had a two-run double to tie the game, then the Lady Pirates scored four in the seventh, highlighted by Webb’s two-run triple.
Porter finished the year 19-10.